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An interesting series of interviews run by Aria E Appleford has given me some food for thought. Aria has interviewed old residents of Second Life® who have given up on the virtual world. She asked them about their engagement — what they mostly did, why they remained for so long, and, […]

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For some silly reason, I’m unable to post a comment on http://mashable.com/2010/05/03/second-life-users-file-class-action-lawsuit-over-virtual-land/ so I’m pasting my comment here instead: Jolie, I really appreciate that you’ve posted the data with the numbers on your article 🙂 It avoided a lot of the typical “get a second life” one-liners and “why are people […]

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In ‘A Tale Of Two Avatars’, Wagner James Au reports on the discovery that there are two ‘Hamlet Aus’ on the social networking site ‘Avatars United’. Like many things to do with life on the screen, a superficial consideration of this discovery leads to a clear-cut and simple conclusion: There […]

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I had started to write this in mid-October but never finished it… and the database crashed at some point while I was in the middle of writing it, losing almost all of the article 🙁 In the mean time, the recent interest in this topic, as well as M Linden’s […]

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This fantastic essay by Extropia DaSilva is kindly reprinted here with her explicit permission. It makes for very good reading, and goes straight to answering the difficult question of what reality is. – Gwyn What is ‘real’ anyway? An essay by Extropia DaSilva. It’s probably the question that is put […]